While I bet most /a/nons go to /jp/ for whatever reason (I do from time to time), post quality drops dramatically. /a/ has better threads this days, they were also a month ago, but where difficult to see with all the crap around them.

I also believe that both /a/ and /jp/ have their unique pool of posters, and we can easily see that /a/ keeps the higher standard.

Sop, let's stop complaining about it and enjoy the new (a.k.a. old) /a/!

>>9844635You can still have fun, unless your idea of fun is troll threads (hell, those are still here) endless repetetively spammed memes and a general flood of posts that require less thought to process than the average kindergarten book.

>>9844806It's not as simple as that, eurofag. Two of the biggest problems is that America is:

*Fucking huge. Srsly. It's the third largest country in terms of land area and population. And it's the fattest, of course. This means that it's a lot harder to implement things country-wide, since there's more area to cover and more inertia.

*Partitioned into fifty different states, all with different laws, culture, and regulations. The constitution was written so that federal laws could only go so far.

>>9844854...Let's trollUSA became powerful only thanks to WWII. Just before, the country was crippled with debts, the inflation and the unemployment were rising, etc. Now, it's been 60 years and USA are already going down. Their overwhelming debt cannot be paid, they're depending of Asia's investments, they cannot do better than countries who don't have all their lands and natural ressources (Lol, Japan). Lots of unemployment is on the way, nobody respects them anymore, the health system is a total failure, Iraq's war either, etc, etc, etc...I'm talking in engrish so I cannot really explain my point correctly but I guess it's fine anyway.

Socialism breeds satisfaction. Satisfaction breeds mediocrity. Look at the better part of western Europe (yes, eurofag speaking) -- most of our students just take out government-sponsored loans and expect their government to take care of them cradle to the grave. As such, none of them bother working, or thinking, or innovating.

Dude, of course it's true, but you don't go around SAYING it! All I see are foreigners talking shit UNPROVOKED most of the time, on an AMERICAN site. I mean seriously, wtf! I know some Americans hate on Europeans or some other group, but they're equally retarded, and more importantly, FAR LESS NUMEROUS.

Seriously, stop bashing on America. These shitstorms are mainly defenses of America and rebuttals, not attacks on Europe or any other country of the world.

>>9845141Being better than /jp/ means nothing when /a/ is actually way worse than it was before the split. The point is to improve the board, not to just spout how this board is better than that board.

>>9845183It's not the Iraq war what makes people hate US and A, it's that the government is full of hypocrites and they have to stick their nose absolutely everywhere to make profit but justified by two-faced moralistic reasons. I'm so fucking glad the Iraq war backfired.

>>9845337Dude, it wasn't about making the world better. USA is a war economy country. Do you really think the government gives a fuck about anything that's not a direct or indirect thread to USA? That's exactly the same reason why they demonize communism. And what that does is cost thousand of lives with economic embargoes caused by the USA.

The main argument is that, as predicted, /a/ has lost it's soul. It's become a boring, slow, generic, post-fanart-or-screencaps imageboard that is no different from any other imageboard. If you like that, good for you. I for one, don't. The hope was that /jp/ would transfer /a/'s culture into a new board, but that was deluged by wapanese retards who show no sign of leaving, so we, as a culture, are now stuck in between a rock and a hard place.

Ah but that's the beauty of the thing: Now that threads trim based on popularity, if your thread got bumped off nobody was posting in it, so you weren't actually having a discussion about the series, so it doesn't matter.

>>9845572The once a day ronery threads are nice, so are the random few figya threads, and im pretty sure everyone here enjoyed patchcon and the other random good doujin games. All in moderation, however. /jp/ is a fucking abortion and is full of so much pure wap one cannot stand it.

If you are discussing it, i.e. someone is actually talking with you about it, your thread won't die.

Now, contrast this to the old system, where there were still large numbers of shonen threads, but which were quickly saged and buried. Since under the old pruning method, the oldest thread got kicked, the shonen threads (along with idiocy like "hey gais what animu is this picture of Teh Rei from?") did indeed routinely bump quality discussions off the board.

Under the new system, the only thing hurt by shonen threads is your sensibilities.

This is essentially what /a/ is. No panache, no vivacity, no soul. There are some that are happy with that. This is, of course, subjective, and relevant to taste. I, however, am not. I liked coming to /a/ and being taken slightly off-kilter by the enjoyable tangents. I liked having random threads that involved stuff I was interested in. I liked, well, all of /a/. Even if there were certain parts I disagreed with (Not a big fan of Touhou, among other things), I wouldn't want it out, because it was part of what made /a/ interesting. It's what sets 4chan's /a/ apart from 7chan's /a/, or 420 chan's /a/, or any other /a/. We were unique. Now take a look at the above list. You can find something like that on any anime discussion board, anywhere. It's generic. It's unoriginal. It's boring. /a/ has changed from a unique and, dare I say it, fun place to hang out. It has morphed into a cookie-cutter anime discussion board, no different from the plethora of others on the Internet.

I ask you, is this what you want? Do you like normalcy? Do you like more of the same? If you do, then you should be delighted with the changes. I for one want us to be unique again.

So, basically, you're now admitting that you're bitching about something that doesn't hurt you in any way, just because you personally dislike it. Even though Hide Thread takes one click to perform so you don't even have to see it.

>>9846031You must have come in here a week ago. We don't need or want your kind around. If we want pages and pages full of naruto, bleach, and whatever 500+ episode shounen show is the current fad, we would go to fucking any other forum on the internet. Just go right back to your hole in animesuki or whatever forum your ass sits in, and stay there.

For the other two posts, I can only reply that time will tell. Once the giant sticky vanishes and stops scaring everybody into only posting things that fall within the strictest possible interpretation of "anime and manga ONLY", I predict it will relax quite a bit.

>>9846297You would rather stand by and let /a/ fall into doom, all because you're too much of a pussy to voice your displeasure? Or rather, are you the doom that is befalling /a/ that needs to be rid of?

You have the most hopeless, impotent, failure-destined mindset I've ever seen. I make a post suggesting that we proactively attempt to make the board better, and your only reply is THAT?

If you were trying to come up with a plan to doom /a/ forever by having us all play victim, or going for the whiny bitch of the year award, then I congratulate you. Otherwise, stop whining, and go create some good threads.

>>9846410Again, if we wanted the same generic anime talk we saw on every other anime forum, WE WOULD GO THERE. I cant talk about aria or captian tylor or legend of galactic heroes when the first three pages are full of bleach and naruto. If the thread even exists, i or no one else can find it. thread hider does NOT cut it.

>>9846520Just wait. Once the shitstorm dies down, as one of anon said, it will be just about all bleach/naruto/inuyasha/one piece. I mean its only been a few days and we have 3-4 on the first page alone.